For experience. The experienced bats got chances and did nothing.Interested by the composition of that middle order...
Slightly relatedly, I've just had a quick trawl to try finding the most wickets taken by a bowler in a bilateral 5-ODI series. The highest I can find is 13 - by Viv Richards, of all people, against India in 1989. Darren Gough also has 13, whilst Andre Adams has 14 from 4 ODIs in a 7 game series and Javagal Srinath 18 from 7 as an all-time best.
I have 13 from 4 ODIs in this series thus far... but I can't believe that this is so close to a record... maybe there are just so few bilaterals played?
You already took 17 from 5 when Pakistan came here a couple of years ago. Work to do on Sunday, clearly.Interested by the composition of that middle order...
Slightly relatedly, I've just had a quick trawl to try finding the most wickets taken by a bowler in a bilateral 5-ODI series. The highest I can find is 13 - by Viv Richards, of all people, against India in 1989. Darren Gough also has 13, whilst Andre Adams has 14 from 4 ODIs in a 7 game series and Javagal Srinath 18 from 7 as an all-time best.
I have 13 from 4 ODIs in this series thus far... but I can't believe that this is so close to a record... maybe there are just so few bilaterals played?
No. Played the best XIs available for the important first 3 games and only Sehwag and Gambhir made runs. What reason is there to believe that the young guys won't do better than the crap Ganguly, Yuvraj and the like served up. Might actually get batsmen wanting to make runs to make an impression.But surely India does not want to get whitewashed in the name of experience. They'd still be playing their best XI to salvage some pride.
Fair point. Hmm..........Because Ganguly and Yuvraj are proven performers and the youngsters aren't? Fair enough to make a change or two, but to have Chawla batting in the middle order ahead of Ganguly or Yuvraj? That's just asking to be whitewashed. India has fixed this series, IMO.